How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)

03/19/2000 (GB) • 58m

Documentary

Overview

A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.

Top Billed Cast

Felicity Kendal

The Narrator

Ralph Fiennes

Marcel Proust

Phyllida Law

Virginia Woolf

Donald Sinden

Duc d'Albufera

Phelim Drew

James Joyce

Richard Blackford

Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld

Lily Bevan

Celeste Albaret

Katherine Porter

Anna de Noailles


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

social life

novelist

parisian

self expression

bedridden

social class

life lessons

french writer

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